Draft-evener.



' No. 663,875. Patented Dec. [8, I900.

M. FEIEBER.

DRAFT EVENEB.

(Application filed June 13. 900.,

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Patented Dec. l8, I900 M. FEIERER.

DRAFT EVENER.

(Application filed June 13, 1900. (No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,875, dated December 18, 19 00.

Application filed June 13, 1900.

Serial No. 20,164. (No model.)

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, lVIIKE FEIERER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sleepy Eye, in the county of Brown and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft-Eveners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a draft-evener; and it con sists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts hereinafter described in this specification and the claim hereunto anneXed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view with the rear end of the tongue, the side brace, and the cross-bar that connects the two broken away. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of Fig. 1 on the line X X looking from the left hand of the sheet. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the invention with the parts broken away, the same asshown in Fig. 1. The chain, however, is hooked to the inner right-hand hook instead of to the extreme hook. 4 is an edge view of Fig.3 looking from the bottom of the sheet. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing part of the tongue, the pivoted arm, and the beam pivoted to the free end of said arm, the right-hand end, however, of said beam being broken away.

My invention is described as follows:

1 represents the tongue.

2 represents the brace, the forward end of which is securely fastened to the tongue. The rear end of the tongue and the rear end of the brace are held in position by a cross-beam fastened to the rear ends of each. This crossbeam, however, isnot shown, and the free end of the tongue is broken away. Pivoted to the upper face of the tongue and some distance from its rear end is one end of an arm 3. Pivoted to the lower face of the tongue and by the same pivot that pivots the arm 3 is pivoted one end of a brace 4. The other end is secured to the free end of the arm 3 by a bolt and nut 5. On the upper face of and near the free end of the said arm 3 is pivoted a beam 6 by the same bolt 5 that secures the brace 4 to the arm 3. To the upper face of the beam 6 and to the left-hand end thereof is secured a double hook 7, one hook facing to the rear and the other to the front. To

the other end of the said beam 6 is secured another double hook 8, one hook facing to the front and the other to the rear. About midway between hook 8 and the pivot-bolt 5 is another hook 9, facing to the rear.

A bar 10 has one end secured to the rear end of the brace 2, its other end inclining forward and secured to the upper face of the tongue 1. This bar is provided with perforations 11. Adjustably secured to this bar 10 by a bolt and nut 12 is a bearing 13, and in this hearing 13 is journaled a pulley 14.

A chain 15 has one end hooked to the rear hook of the double hook 7 and passes rearwardly and around pulley 14, then forwardly, and is hooked to the rear hook of either hook S or 9. When hooked to the extreme righthand end of the beam 6, (hook 8,) there is.

still lefta short end 16 of the chain hanging loose, (see Fig. 1,) so that the hearing may be moved back to the last perforation in the bar 10, or it may be moved forward to the last forward perforation in said bar. Thus it is adjustable to the extent of the perforations. There are occasions, however, hereinafter explained, when the chain may be hooked in the hook 9. To the front hook 7 of the beam 6 is hooked a doubletree 19, and on the left of the tongue and to the left-hand end of the doubletree is secured a singletree 20. On the right side of the tongue and to the right-hand end of the doubletree is another singletree 21. To the right-hand end of the beam 6 and to the hook 8 is hooked another doubletree 22, (see Fig. 1,) and to the left-hand end of this doubletree is secured a singletree 23 and to the right-hand end of said doubletree is secured another singletree 24. This doubletree may be removed and in place thereof there may be hooked to the said hook 8 a singletree 25 for one horse, in which case the chain 15 will be secured to the hook 9. (See Fig. 3. This drawing was made from a fullsized model.)

The evener is designed for one horse on the left side of the tongue and one on the right side, with a whiffietree attached to the hook 7. I then hitch one horseto the singletree 25, attached to the hook 8. (See Fig. 3.) The chain 15 is attached to the hook 7, passes around pulley l4, and is then hooked to hook 9. Now if you attach spring-scales to the hooks 7 and 8 and fasten the scales to some stationary object and then pull on the rear end of the tongue, you will see that the scale at hook 8, which represents one horse, will register one-half as much as the scale at hook 7, which represents two horses.

The office of the arm 3 is to support the beam 6.

The front end of the tongue is carried by the two horses hitched to the doubletree 19.

In case four horses are used two are hitched as above described and two to the doubletree 22. (See Fig. 1.)

When the doubletree 22 is hooked to the hook 8 at the right-hand end of the beam, the chain is also hooked to the hook 8. The scales will then register the same.

The sickle-bar of the reaper is on the left side of the tongue.

The main object of this improvement is to prevent the tongue from veering to the right or to the left, as it relieves the side draft.

The singletree is never attached to the hook 7, as the two horses are always hitched here.

The tongue willinot veer to the grain side, (the left;) but should it veer to the left the pulley should be moved one hole or more, as required, out from the tongue, and if it should veer to the right the pulley should be moved in one hole or more to the tongue and the chain rehooked to provide for the change.

In all cases the beam 6 should work in on a line with the rear bar, (not shown in the drawings,) which forms a right angle with the tongue 1.

The strain is not on the bolt 5, which passes through the beam 6 and the arm 3. The arm 3 is not rigidly secured, but is pivoted to the tongue. The strain, therefore, is on the pulley 14, and the pulley 14 being adjustable to the right and to the left enables the operator to so adjust the evener that the tongue always points directly to the front and stands at a right angle to the front part of the reaper, except when it is purposely turned to the right or to the left.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An evener, consisting of a tongue, having rigidly secured to one side, a brace, extending rearwardly; a perforated bar, one end se cured to the brace and the other to the tongue; an arm, pivoted to the upper face of the tongue, some distance from its rear end; a beam, pivoted at its middle, to the free end of the arm; a hook, secured to the left-hand end of the beam; a double hook, secured to the right-hand end of the beam, said hooks adapted to carry on their front parts, whiffletrees or singletrees; a hook, secured midway between the middle of the beam and the right-hand end thereof; a pulley, adjustably secured to the perforated beam; a chain, having one end secured to the rear part of the double hook, passing thence rearwardly and around the pulley, adjustably secured to the perforated beam, thence forwardly, and adapted to be hooked to either of the hooks on the right-hand end of the beam, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MIKE 'FEIERER. 

